Mahesh is the founder and CEO of Azingo, Inc. Mahesh is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive with over 18 years experience in the technology industry.

Prior to Azingo, Mahesh was Vice President at Nokia Internet Communications for the small office products division. Mahesh has founded two successful technology companies over the last 10 years. Mahesh was the Founder, President and CEO of Ramp Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAMP) from 1996-2001. Ramp Networks was a pioneer in the Internet access and security appliances for the small office and enterprise remote office market segments. Mahesh grew Ramp from a small technology startup to a publicly traded company with market capitalization of over US$450M.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) acquired Ramp Networks in 2001. Mahesh was founding CEO and Chairman of FlowWise Networks, Inc., an IP routing acceleration company from 1994-1997. Network Equipment Technologies (NASDAQ: NET) acquired FlowWise Networks in 1998. Early in his career Mahesh held several engineering and technology lead positions at Amdahl Corporation and Synoptics. Mahesh has also co-founded, advised, and served on the boards of several venture-backed technology startups in Silicon Valley. Mahesh has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette. He also holds a MS degree in Electronics from Andhra University, India.

Sridhar (Sri) is a co-founder and Vice President and General Manager of India Operations at Azingo. He has over 20 years of experience in the networking industry at various levels of responsibilities from engineering to management. Sri has strong technical leadership and management skills with an entrepreneurial sprit.

Prior to joining Azingo, Sri was Director of R&D at Nokia in their Enterprise Solutions division where he was responsible for delivering Nokia’s IP-VPN and SSL-VPN solutions for the enterprise market. He also led the development effort on Mobility Gateway solutions based on the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) specifications for the operator markets. Sri also served as the Country Manager for the Nokia Enterprise Solutions R&D center in Hyderabad, India, where he built a team of 120 employees delivering wide variety of projects including security protocols, network protocols, operating system support, and network management.

Prior to Nokia, Sri was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Ramp Networks (NASDAQ: RAMP). Ramp Networks was a pioneer in easy to use Internet Access and Security appliances for the SOHO and enterprise remote office markets. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) acquired Ramp in 2001. Sri has held senior engineering positions at Netlabs and AT&T Bells Labs, specializing in network and systems management. Sri has an M.S in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University and a Bachelors degree in Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

Gabi Schindler is chief marketing officer for Azingo with responsibility for corporate marketing, product marketing, and ecosystem development worldwide.

Gabi brings extensive technology marketing experience, leveraging her experience driving the worldwide communications programs of public and private companies. Gabi joined Azingo from Saba, a human capital management software and services provider, where she served as chief marketing officer with responsibility for global product marketing, field marketing and corporate marketing.

Prior to Saba, Gabi was senior vice president of worldwide marketing at PalmSource, Inc. a spin-off of Palm Inc., where she focused on building mobile operating systems for mobile phones and devices. Previously she held executive positions at Apple and AT&T. She began her career as a principal at Regis McKenna, a Silicon Valley public relations firm, where she managed strategic marketing and communications efforts for companies such as IBM and Apple. She holds a bachelor of arts in communications from San Jose State University.

Michael Mclaughlin is vice president of product marketing. A seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and executive, Michael brings more than 20 years of experience in product development, marketing and business development for technology companies.

Michael leads Azingo’s product marketing efforts as well as its participation in the LiMo foundation. Prior to joining Azingo, Michael was vice president of marketing and business development at Glimmerglass, Inc. a pioneer in next generation optical switching products. Prior to joining Glimmerglass, Michael engaged in a number of entrepreneurial efforts, founding and participating in the building of a number of technology companies.

He also founded and was a managing partner of Formational Ventures, a Sand Hill Road investment company. Earlier in his career, Michael held engineering, product management and product strategy positions at IBM, Siemens and ROLM Corporation. He holds six patents in the areas of telecom, mobile phone network and computer display innovations and is responsible for numerous trademarked brand names. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.